"I Like Old Clothes" by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrations by Patrice Barton

In bouncy rhyme, the young narrator of this winsome picture book explains why she doesn’t eschew a wardrobe with a history: “I don’t say, ‘What, those?’/ and turn up my nose/ The way some people do/ When their clothes aren’t new.”

She likes clothes “with a history, clothes with a mystery,” and asks her togs, “Clothes, I wonder who wore you before you were mine?/ Was she light-haired or dark-haired, seven or nine?/ Did you make her look awful or make her look fine?”